It may be unseemly for a pundit to highlight his own predictive powers, especially in the first sentence of a column, but propriety has never been much of a constraining factor for me, so here goes:

No sooner had I written that the High Mucka-Mucks of the "Kochtopus" would jump on the bandwagon of the Gary Johnson campaign, then there was David Boaz, looking particularly smug, singing Johnson's praises (and making catty remarks about Ron Paul's age) on Judge Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch less than twenty-four hours later.

Okay, so you don't have to be Nostradamus reincarnated to have imagined the oily evasive Boaz would sidle up to the oily evasive Johnson: like attracts like and all that. But how about my prediction that the neocons War Party, bored with Afghanistan and eager to find fresh killing fields, would soon be focusing on Pakistan as the New Enemy in our eternal "war on terrorism"?

No sooner had my last column been posted, then CNN posted David Frum's latest screed, in which the former speechwriter for George W. Bush asked: "Has our mission in Afghanistan become obsolete?"

Frum, who authored the "axis of evil" phraseology that set the tone for the Bush presidency, isn't having second thoughts about the interventionist foreign policy he's always championed: no, he's just wondering if, as he puts it, "The world's most important terrorist safe haven is visibly not Afghanistan, but instead next-door Pakistan."